About Me

I was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, in 1930.
From the outbreak of war to late late June 1940 I was in England, then until July 1943 I was in Italy and after that to the bitter end in Nazi occupied Italy, in Mussolini's so called Republic of Saló. Thus I saw close up, and spoke with, British, Italian, and German soldiers, including the SS, and with Fascist Republicans and Partisans. From 1948 to 1953 I served in the Royal Artillery.
To join email me at petergyATyahoo.com, where AT = @Click here for A Childhood in Nazi-Occupied Italy in the BBC WW2 People's War Archive.
Favourite Books: Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time.
Interests: Literature (Catalan, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish); physics; evolution; history (ancient, medieval, and modern); Computers (programming in Visual Basic, Javascript, and HTML).